What are the Physical and Chemical Properties of metals?

Answer:
physical properties: metals are usually ductile(can be drawn into wires), malleable(can be beaten into sheets), sonorous, have high melting and boiling points, lustrous, high tensile strength,good conductors of electricity and heat, high density and are usually solids.

Chemical properties: metals have low ionisation energy, are electropositive which means that they easily lose eletrons to form positive ions, react with oxygen to form metal oxides which have basic or amphoteric nature. The metals which are very reactive form their respective hydroxides on reacting with cold or normal water. The less reactive metals react with steam to form theis oxides while others don't react at all. Metals react with acids to form their respective salts. Highly reactive metals also react eith hydrogen to form metal hydrides. As they easily lose electrons, metals also act as reducing agents. Metals also react with chlorine at room temperature or on heating to form metal chlorides.
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